That Film Stew Podcast

What do Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal have in common besides similar sounding names? Gladiator II, that's what. Brad Pitt stars in the first trailer for F1, a new Hellboy movie has quietly come about, M3GAN spins off with an erotic thriller, and in the ultimate search for more money the sequel to Spaceballs is official. Psul Giamatti joins Star Trek, Arkham Asylum gets shut down, and it turns out it really was Agatha All Along.

The heat is on once again... on Netflix! Directed by Mark Molloy, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is the action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy which serves as the fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop film series. Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.

Created by Dave Filoni, Star Wars: The Bad Batch is the animated television series which is a part of the Star Wars franchise. Luke and Jae check out the third and final season of this Disney+ show which is a spin-off from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, continuing from the end of that series. The Bad Batch will have their limits tested in the fight to reunite with Omega as she faces challenges of her own inside a remote Imperial science lab. With the group fractured and facing threats from all directions, they will have to seek out unexpected allies, embark on dangerous missions, and muster everything they have learned to free themselves from the Empire.

Created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman and produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, Star Trek: Discovery is the science fiction television series set in and based on the Star Trek franchise. Luke and Jae get their "disco" on as they check out the fifth and final season of the series. Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise serve as showrunners. Following the crew of the starship Discovery in the 32nd century, more than 900 years after Star Trek: The Original Series, a mysterious power is uncovered that has been hidden for centuries and which other dangerous groups are also searching for.

Directed by J. J. Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, Star Trek is the science fiction action film based on television series of the same name. Luke and Jason branch off into a new timeline by revisiting 2009 for the 11th film in the Star Trek franchise, and the first in the rebooted film series that features the main characters of Star Trek: The Original Series. Aboard the USS Enterprise, the most-sophisticated starship ever built, a novice crew embarks on its maiden voyage. Their path takes them on a collision course with Romulan commander Nero (Eric Bana). If humanity would survive, a rebellious young officer named James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and a coolly logical Vulcan named Spock (Zachary Quinto) must move beyond their rivalry and find a way to defeat Nero before it is too late.

Directed Joe Johnston, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is the science fiction comedy film starring Rick Moranis and the first installment of the Shrunk film franchise. Rob and Jason shrink themselves as a means to rewind to 1989 to review this Disney family classic. When kids sneak into inventor Wayne Szalinski's (Rick Moranis) upstairs lab to retrieve an errant baseball, his experimental shrink ray miniaturizes them. When Szalinski returns home, he destroys the device - and dumps it in the trash, throwing out the kids along with it. The four children, now 1/4-inch tall, must survive the journey back to the house through a yard where sprinklers bring treacherous storms and garden-variety ants stampede like elephants.

In this special milestone episode, we'll look back at an assortment of films from multiple decades that make up the ambitious, experimental, sometimes funny, sometimes not, long running, successful movie production company founded by Adam Sandler - Happy Madison Productions. What are our favourite movies and what are the worst movies?

Written, produced, and directed by John Krasinski, IF is the live-action / animated fantasy comedy film featuring an ensemble cast that includes Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, Fiona Shaw, along with the voices of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr., and Steve Carell. After discovering she can see everyone’s imaginary friends, twelve-year-old Bea (Cailey Fleming) embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids.

Directed by Patrick Hughes, The Expendables 3 is the action film written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, and Sylvester Stallone. It s the third installment in The Expendables franchise. Luke and Nathan get fired up to revist the third installment in The Expendables franchise which once again features an ensemble cast of largely action film actors. Years ago, Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) co-founded the Expendables with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson). After Stonebanks became an arms dealer, Ross was forced to kill him - or so he thought. Now, Stonebanks is back and he's on a mission to end the Expendables. Ross decides that the way to fight old blood is with new blood, so he assembles a team of younger, faster, more tech-savvy recruits.

Directed by Matthew Vaughan and produced by Bryan Singer, X-Men: First Class is the superhero film based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. Luke and Nathan return to 2011 to the fourth mainline film (fifth overall) in the X-Men film series that takes the story back to 1962 to initially serve as a franchise reboot but eventually was retconned as a legitimate prequel to X-Men (2000). During the height of the Cold War, a mutant named Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) meets a fellow mutant named Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender). Despite their vastly different backgrounds -- Charles grew up with a wealthy family, while Erik lost his parents at Auschwitz -- the two become close friends. As the world teeters on the brink of a nuclear war, Charles and Erik with other mutants join forces to save humanity.

Directed by Joshua John Miller, The Exorcism is the horror film starring Russell Crowe. Anthony Miller (Russell Crowe) is a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film. His estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play.

We've got new trailers for Venom: The Last Dance and Alien: Romulus, the new Knives Out cast has grown extensively (and so has Daniel Craig's hair), the next The Exorcist will take a radical new direction, and the Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover movie is still happening. Guy Ritchie is back with more Sherlock Holmes, Zack Snyder is back with more 300, Man on Fire gets the small screen treatment, and Hotel Transylvania has a TV series coming... again.

Produced and directed by Richard Linklater, Hit Man is the romantic action comedy film based on the 2001 Texas Monthly magazine article of the same name by Skip Hollandsworth. Strait-laced professor Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department. Gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona). As Madison falls for one of Gary's hit man personas - the mysteriously sexy Ron - their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of play acting, deception, and escalating stakes.

Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, Hercules is the animated musical fantasy film, loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology. Luke and Jae journey back to the legendary times of Ancient Greece (also known as 1997) to revist this Walt Disney Feature Animation produced film. Hercules (Tate Donovan), a son of gods, was snatched as a baby by Hades (James Woods) and forced to live among mortals as a half-man, half-god. Now a teenager, Hercules needs to perform a rite of passage on Earth to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus. With his plucky satyr sidekick, Philoctetes (Danny DeVito), along for the ride, Hercules must learn how to use his strength to defeat a series of evil creatures.

Created by John Whittington and Toby Ascher, Knuckles is the telvision miniseries based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series published by Sega. It is a spin-off of the Sonic the Hedgehog film series. Luke and Jason check out this firat live-action Sonic television series which takes place between the events of the films Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024), and follows Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba) and deputy sheriff Wade Whipple (Adam Pally). As Knuckles struggles to find purpose in a strange, new and mostly peaceful world, he teaches Wade the techniques of the Echidna warrior.

Created by Beau DeMayo, X-Men '97 is the animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men. It is the revival of X-Men: The Animated Series (1992 - 1997), continuing the story of the X-Men following the loss of their leader, Professor X. Luke and Nathan get their mutant on as they check out the first season of this Marvel Studios produced, Marvel Animation series for Disney+. A band of mutants use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them; they're challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

Directed, co-written, and co-produced by George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the Australian post-apocalyptic action film which serves as a prequel and spin-off to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) which focuses on the character Imperator Furiosa. It is also the fifth installment in the Mad Max franchise. Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth). Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme). As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop battle to make her way home.

It's been forty years but we finally have a trailer for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the next Knives Out title has been revealed, a Marvel Studio's X-Men movie is official, and Cillian Murphy will be back (somehow) in 28 Years Later. Marvel's Vision series is still on the schedule, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series finds its lead, and Will Ferrell takes on the golf comedy genre.

What a wonderful day! Directed by Wes Ball and written by Josh Friedman, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the fourth installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise and standalone sequel to War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). It is also the tenth Planet of the Apes film overall. Set several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows, a new tyrannical ape leader (Kevin Durand) builds his empire. One young ape (Owen Teague) undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction tells three intertwining tales of crime and violence in Los Angeles, California. Jason and Rob rewind to 1994 to review the independent crime film that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year - a film that spends considerable screen time devoted to monologues and casual conversations, and features an ironic combination of humour and strong violence. Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. Their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), his actress wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), struggling boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), and master fixer Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel).